Reports from the Courts

Our review of the most important court cases for construction comes from Andrew Croft and Simii Sivapalan, focusing on a Court of Session ruling highlighting that contractual rights of set-off may be used as a defence in respect of any additional assessment for payment under a payment certificate, even in the absence of pay less notices; and one showing how the drafting of the guarantee as a whole will be key in determining the differences between a guarantee and demand bond.

This article was first published in Construction Law.

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